Webinar Recording - Trusts - Asset Protection on Peptides

The Family Trust is commonly touted as an excellent asset protection vehicle. But how true is this? In our upcoming webinar, Trusts – Asset Protection on Peptides, tax lawyer, Damian O’Connor takes a clinical look at the performance enhancements available through Family Trusts from an asset protection perspective. What is myth? What is fact? And how do you best structure the Trust?

Please note that this is an intermediate session, suitable for people with at least a basic understanding of how discretionary (family) trusts work.

This Webinar covers:

• Trust basics;
• Personal exposure:
  • Trustee
  • Appointor
  • Guardian
  • Beneficiary
• The pros and cons of corporate trustees
• Challenges to trusts  when the going gets tough:
  • Relationship break down;
  • Inheritance claims;
  • Bankruptcy; and
  • Tax debts
• Planning ahead

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Presenter Damian O’Connor
Damian is the Principal of the Taxation team at law firm Rockwell Olivier (Melbourne).
Having previously practised in Brisbane for many years, Damian has built an exceptional network in both Melbourne and Brisbane, as well as working with clients nationally and internationally.
For more than 16 years Damian has assisted his clients with corporate, commercial and tax aspects of their businesses, most recently as a partner within a national law firm. Damian's role within the legal space is supported by more than 23 years' experience in the Australian Taxation Office as an investigator, and in other tax enforcement roles.
Damian's practice has a strong focus on tax controversy. He has defended tax prosecutions and managed many contentious, complex, high risk and high stress tax matters, including the Project Wickenby raids.
His core skills lie in the tax complications of planning and structuring the business and financial affairs of individual and corporate clients alike and he has successfully managed taxation audits (including payroll tax and state duty dealings), debt and penalty negotiations, private rulings, objections and tax appeals to the AAT and the Federal Court on behalf of his clients.